Bye, Bye, Miss Canadian Pie?
A good summation on the state of our nation, where Canada is, and where we’re headed, by David Solway. After traveling across this vast land, and speaking with all sorts of people, Mr. Solway despairs, after witnessing firsthand the ignorance and compliance of most Canadians, ready and primed for more lockdowns, masking, mandates, passports, digital currency and state over-reach of all sorts. But what is one to expect from the graduates of an educational system designed not only to breed ignorance of the most necessary and fundamental truths, but an abiding hatred of them? How many Canadians live unshriven lives of grave sin, and stoned on weed to boot?
Read over Solway’s lament and weep; or, better yet, get mad and determined. My only quibble would be with the notion of courage he mentions part way through, fitting as we commemorate Saint Andrew. Yes, it takes some fortitude to leave one’s country, and head off for greener pastures, say, Florida or some desolate island north of Scotland. I’ve thought of that. But it also takes guts to stand one’s ground, and fight on, like the lads at the Alamo. And I say that as an immigrant. But I grew up in Canada, and have come to love her lakes, rivers, trees, hills, mountains, prairies, but, more so, her glorious Catholic heritage, the indigenous, the pioneers, habitants, missionaries, martyrs, who built this great nation, now being systematically and, it seems, deliberated dismantled by an miseducated band of petty tyrants, in thrall to China and its communist ideology, along with insidious culture of death in its wake. See Terry McDermott’s own take on euthanasia.
Perhaps Canada is moribund, but we should stand back and watch her demise without some resistance. There’s a lot of good left that may yet be salvaged, and may bear fruit for the future. Whatever happens, and whatever path you discern – perhaps we may have to abandon captain Trudeau’s good ship Lollipop, her sunny ways well behind her, going down to the bottom of the sea – and return someday to rebuild on the wreckage – remember always that God is our hope, our refuge and our strength. This earthly pilgrimage is but a penultimate one, to a far, far greater life to come. Stand strong, dear reader, in the truth, in goodness, and in freedom.
Saint Andrew would do no less. Courage mes frères et mes sœurs!
Carney’s Amoral Majority
After five defections – euphemistically described as ‘crossing the floor’ – and three by-elections, Mark Carney and his Liberals how have their coveted majority. One wonders what bowls of pottage were offered in back-room deals. In the archaic monarchical system that is the Dominion of Canada, this majority allows the newly-minted Prime Minister to rule[…]Continue reading→
A Closed, Unsustainable, Descending Loop
As a follow-up to my thoughts on Payette’s payout, here be a stark image of where are here in Canada. As the graph shows in, well, graphic terms, since 2025, the public sector has contributed to 95.5% of economic growth. The private sector – which funds the public sector, or is supposed to – has[…]Continue reading→
Remembering Father Alphonse de Valk
(Today marks the sixth anniversary of the death of Father Alphonse de Valk, C.S.B., a faithful, courageous and indefatigable Basilian priest, pro-life-and-family apostle, and the founder of Catholic Insight magazine. Here is what we wrote those on his entering into eternity five years ago, as we continue to remember him in our prayers and thoughts)[…]Continue reading→
A Tale of Two Benedicts
A grace-filled Holy Week to all our readers! As we await and prepare for the Resurrection about to dawn upon us, we might keep in mind two Benedicts: Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, requiescat in pace, elected on this day in 2005; and today’s commemoration of the mystic pilgrim, Benedict Joseph Labre, who died on this[…]Continue reading→
Presidential Pardon of Weronika Krawczyk
As a good news, follow-up to our story from Poland, of the persecution of Weronika Krawczyk for her pro-life views, we heard that she has been granted a presidential pardon. One might still wonder why one needs a presidential pardon for simply holding the long-held belief that the child within the womb is a child,[…]Continue reading→
Saint Lydwina of Schiedam and Suffering Joyfully
Saint Lydwina of Schiedam (1380 – 1433) was one of the countless and glorious ‘victim souls’ in the history of the Church, those whose lives are filled with suffering, often of an unimaginable intensity, but who suffer joyfully. She was a fifteen-year old Dutch girl, out skating one day, when she fell and broke one[…]Continue reading→
The Glorious Martyrdoms of Martin and Maximus
As we enter into Eastertide, we recall on this 13th of April Pope Saint Martin I (+655), one of the noblest, if most tragic, of the successors of Saint Peter. Born in Umbria, Italy, he was of noble lineage, with great intelligence combined with charity and love of the poor and the Church. While still[…]Continue reading→
Pope Leo and a Rosary for Peace
Pope Leo XIV has asked Catholics across the world to join him in a Rosary for peace today, at 18:00 Rome time (6 pm), which would be noon from where I write (EST). If you are able, whether at that time or another, and in whatever way you pray, to join in intercession with the[…]Continue reading→
Payette’s Payout
I was glancing through some headlines, and noticed a mention of Julie Payette – engineer and astronaut and sometime the Queen’s representative in Canada – which brought back vague memories. She was appointed Governor-General by Justin Trudeau in 2017. Ms. Payette resigned in 2021, amidst claims that she created a ‘toxic work environment’, with allegations[…]Continue reading→
Saint Stanislaus of Szczepanów
We celebrate Saint Stanislaus today (+ April 11, 1079), in light of this Easter Octave, a bishop and martyr who accepted the episcopacy only at the direct order of Pope Alexander II. He proved a wise and courageous leader of his flock, put to death by his own king, Boleslaus, for rebuking the monarch’s ‘immoral[…]Continue reading→